Bible Verses About Making Money
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for making money, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,392 votes, led by Proverbs 13:11. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Making Money
Proverbs 13:11225 votes
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
1 Timothy 6:10202 votes
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Ecclesiastes 5:10165 votes
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Matthew 6:24146 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Proverbs 14:23143 votes
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Hebrews 13:5111 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
2 Thessalonians 3:10109 votes
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
Proverbs 10:4106 votes
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Deuteronomy 8:1895 votes
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Proverbs 23:490 votes
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Proverbs 22:781 votes
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 28:2081 votes
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Luke 12:1570 votes
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Matthew 25:14-3054 votes
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Proverbs 23:4-548 votes
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
1 Timothy 5:846 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Proverbs 10:2244 votes
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Luke 16:1338 votes
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 14:2835 votes
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Proverbs 22:2934 votes
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Ephesians 4:2830 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Proverbs 11:2829 votes
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
1 Timothy 6:17-1928 votes
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
James 4:1325 votes
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Matthew 6:1-3424 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
What does the Bible say about making money?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 13:11 on the subject of making money. Across 2,392 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 6:10, Ecclesiastes 5:10, Matthew 6:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.